Blount County TN Archives News.....News Articles May 29, 1878
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MARYVILLE INDEX May 29, 1878
Wednesday, May 29, 1878



A Nashville dispatch of May 21, says, in a raid after illicit whisky

distillers, near Tracy City, Deputy Internal Revenue Collector Davis shot and

killed Joseph Haynes, of Grundy County. Intense excitement prevails in the

neighborhood on account of the killing. A Washington dispatch of May 21, says,

Collector Woodcock telegraphs from Nashville that Deputy Collector Davis with

one companion attempted to seize an illicit still on Saturday in Grundy

County. They were attacked by seven men, Davis killed one, wounded another,

and captured a third, but they were compelled to leave without destroying the

still. Sufficient force has been ordered to the place to destroy the still.



Rhea Springs News, May 23: Mathias Jolly was shot and instantly killed by Sam

Green last Wednesday night at Brown’s Bend on the Tennessee River. The

particulars so far as we were able to gather them from persons in the

neighborhood are about as follows: It seems that Jolly and his wife, who is a

sister of Green’s fell out about some trifling matter, when Jolly slapped her

in the face. The wife told her brother what had happened, when he deliberately

took down a rifle that was hanging in the boat, and when Jolly saw Green go

for the gun he jumped off the boat to the shore and fled., but he had not gone

more than 75 yards before Green fired and the ball went through Jolly, killing

him instantly. All the parties lived on a trading boat on the Tennessee River,

which was moored at the time to the bank of the river on the Meigs County

side. Green is still at large, but the officers are in search of him.



The supposed poisoning of a young man named Childers, in the lower end of

Sullivan County, has caused some excitement. The fact that he was at a grog-

shop and, after taking a drink, complained of feeling badly, went home and

suddenly died, seems to have caused the belief that he was poisoned. We

strongly doubt the correctness of this conclusion. The fact that the vendor of

the brandy refused to test the brandy afterward, by taking a drink himself,

does not change our opinion in the least. It may have been mean brandy, as

much of the brandy sold is. It may have been adulterated, as much of it is.

But we prefer, from accounts which reach us, to think he had no business with

brandy at that time, and in his then condition, and died of some valvular

derangement of the heart, or of apoplexy. There are moments in the lives of

many men when a drink will prove fatal. Bristol News.



Obituary Notice---Died at Clover Hill, on the 23rd inst., William A. Martin,

an old resident of this county, and a prominent member of the Masonic

fraternity. Called upon to undergo extreme suffering, he bore it all with

Christian fortitude and passed away in the triumph of faith in Christ. He

united himself with the Presbyterian Church at Clover Hill a few weeks

previous to his death. His remains were interred in the cemetery at Maryville

with Masonic honors.



A young man named Stallions somewhat out of his head, recently married, (which

may have been the cause of his insanity) created some little sensation on our

streets last Friday. He had been very much concerned about his soul, and went

the day before to talk with President Bartlett, having once attended the

college. He did not find peace there, it seems, but Thursday morning was very

happy, paced up and down the street making loud exclamations, and trying to

persuade others to pray for the conversion of this benighted town, and among

other things went up to the New Providence Church, where two of the young

ladies were remaining after rehersal, and held a meeting himself, doing the

singing, praying and preaching, and rather frightening the young ladies who

did not even wait for the benediction.



A man named Jackson, hailing from Georgia, came through Maryville on Monday

with a one-horse spring wagon, and in his wake came two other men in hot

pursuit, who said Jackson had stolen the horse and wagon, and also a gold

watch and a shawl. Sheriff McReynolds accordingly joined in the game, and went

with one of the pursuers, and caught Jackson in Sevier County. Jackson was

delivered over to his pursuers, but escaped, and coming back to Maryville,

consulted the lawyers and got a replevy warrant for the horse and wagon, and

got them back, delivering up the watch and shawl, which he did not claim, but

said that they were borrowed, not stolen. The parties in pursuit said that the

horse and wagon did not belong to them, but was taken from some other person,

and seem to be inclined to depart with the watch and shawl while Jackson takes

the team, but they still want to see Jackson, who does not care especially to

see them.



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